Episode 595 • • 2:21:35 - 2:27:55
595: Ottomania
Peg Luksik on Computer Adaptive Testing and Behavior Change
Education activist Peg Luksik warns that Common Core's computer adaptive testing allows for the manipulation of assessments in real-time. She argues that these tests are designed to measure a child's "threshold for behavior change without protest" rather than objective knowledge. By forcing students to comply with specific philosophical answers to move forward, the system acts as a mechanism for ideological training.